The EU says Meta may not be doing enough to protect kids.
  • natarey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Justified? Absolutely. Timely? Hardly.

    My point was it’s more than a decade too late, and all the EU will do is levy a minor fine that Meta won’t even blink at. The only country that could impose real consequences is the US, and they have no interest in anything that doesn’t benefit these nightmare cyberpunk megacorps.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Of course it would’ve been better if it were present from the beginning. But I’m not going to complain about them doing the right thing now.

      And EU fines so far have proven to be quite the motivator. These aren’t the baby fines the US hands out.

      • natarey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I was counting from when Facebook et al. became a clear problem — because, again, while I’m glad the EU is looking at this, it’s the US that has needed to take action. Their refusal to do so has left it to the EU to try to do something, and I’m skeptical that whatever they end up doing will make a difference. Like, if the price of the crime is a fine, then the crime is legal for a company as big as Meta.

          • natarey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Well, you’re more optimistic than I am, but I hope you’re right.

            The whole internet feels like it’s in a state of irrecoverable rot, and the last ten years have really tanked my confidence in governments to do anything about the clearly harmful, consumer hostile behavior inflicted on us — mostly because they seem to benefit a lot from letting Meta et al. do whatever they want. Like, EU fines, to date, have looked more like the organization wanting to wet their beak rather than fixing anything. I don’t know.